Senior SDET: AI Detection & Scale Testing

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Paid time off

Parental and adoption leaves

Professional development

Employee networks

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking an experienced test automation leader to expand contract testing and end-to-end coverage across AI-enabled security platforms. You will partner with engineering to build scalable testing foundations for browser extensions, API gateways, cloud platforms, and agentic systems.

The role emphasizes building reliability at scale, improving test strategies, and delivering measurable quality metrics through observability and dashboards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years combined software development and test automation experience in enterprise-grade cloud SaaS
• Experience building testing frameworks and tooling for Cloud SaaS products
• Strong CS fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, distributed systems)
• Proficiency in Python, Go, and JavaScript for test tooling
• Knowledge of cloud architectures, microservices, and API technologies (REST/gRPC)

Responsibilities

• Design and implement contract testing framework to verify API contracts between components
• Contribute comprehensive test strategies across unit, integration, contract, and E2E layers
• Establish testing patterns for AI-powered detection capabilities and model efficacy
• Develop E2E test scenarios for multi-collector deployments and policy workflows
• Implement telemetry, dashboards, and alerting with SRE collaboration

Skills

Contract testing

Test automation

AI quality

Cloud SaaS

Distributed systems

Python

Go

JavaScript

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Redis

REST/gRPC

Protobufs

Prometheus/Grafana

JMeter/Gatling

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking an experienced test automation leader to expand contract testing and end-to-end coverage across AI-enabled security platforms. You will partner with engineering to build scalable testing foundations for browser extensions, API gateways, cloud platforms, and agentic systems.

The role emphasizes building reliability at scale, improving test strategies, and delivering measurable quality metrics through observability and dashboards.